Noblegarden 2009 (Apr 26 - May 2) - Quest Guide + Information!

It's time yet another hunt for phat loot in World of Warcraft, this time in the form of brightly colored eggs! We join together to "share the joy of life and friendship" all the while meticulously hunting carefully hidden eggs and nomming tons of chocolate!

Eggs have been hidden all across the places of our youth (namely, the starting areas for the Alliance and Horde races) for both young and old to discover and perhaps even be rewarded with a fabulousprize! Simply head out to one of your faction's starting areas, grab some quests, and get out there and hunt eggs! Maybe you'll even earn some achievements along the way!

Noblegarden begins on Sunday, April 26th at 12:01 AM (server) and ends on Saturday, May 2nd at 11:59 PM.

Table of Contents

Quests

Spring Gatherers or Spring CollectorsStart: Commoners found in the various citiesEnd:Spring Gatherer or Spring CollectorThis quest is simply a breadcrumb quest, leading players from major cities to a Noblegarden camp, which can be found in the Horde or Alliance starting areas. For Horde, these areas include Bloodhoof Village, Brill, Falconwing Square, and Razor Hill. For Alliance, these areas include Azure Watch, Dolanaar, Goldshire, or Kharanos. Travel to any of them and speak to the Spring Gatherer or Spring Collector to obtain a daily quest.

Tip: The basket that is rewarded is exactly the same as the one you are provided with for the quest. Unless you have extra chocolates, you should probably not complete the quest.

Hunting for Eggs!

This year, players will be scurrying to hunt down Brightly Colored Eggs that spawn hidden in the starting zones of Azeroth:

Horde: Bloodhoof Village, Brill, Falconwing Square, and Razor Hill

Alliance: Azure Watch, Dolanaar, Goldshire, and Kharanos

Eggs can be found only in the starting areas. Blizzard has increased the spawn rate of the eggs, thankfully, and this year you'll have an entire week to hunt them instead of just one day. This should give most players more than enough time to collect all of the new treasures offered in this year's Noblegarden.

The main item players will be collecting from the Brightly Colored Egg looted within is basically the "currency" of the Noblegarden event - Noblegarden Chocolate - which most every egg will contain. Expect to collect a lot of them, as they are not only a currency used to purchase items from Noblegarden vendors but there are achievements for actually consuming quantities of the chocolates as well! Thankfully, all of the items available from the vendors can also randomly be looted from a Brightly Colored Egg so you may get lucky! Likewise, if you're not so lucky you'll have your chance to purchase the items from the vendor in exchange for chocolate - one of the first win-win holidays in Azerothian history! Take that, random loot!

Noblegarden Goodies

Noblegarden 2009 introduces brand new items along with the fancy digs available in the years before. These items can be purchased from a Noblegarden Vendor or Noblegarden Merchant found in one of your faction's starting towns in exchange for Noblegarden Chocolate. Or, you may get lucky and find one or more of these items while egg hunting!

Blushing BrideFor this achievement, you must kiss another player (male or female, it doesn't matter) who is wearing an Elegant Dress while you are wearing a White Tuxedo Shirt and Black Tuxedo Pants. These clothes can be found randomly in a Brightly Colored Egg or purchased from a vendor in exchange for Noblegarden Chocolate. Note that the achievement is only awarded to the player wearing the Tuxedo set (and that this Tuxedo set is different than the tailor-crafted set), so in order to complete the achievement you will have to purchase the White Tuxedo Shirt and Black Tuxedo Pants yourself while another player can have the Elegant Dress. Since these items are not bind on pickup, however, you can opt to simply trade clothes with a friend and take turns getting the achievement.

Hard BoiledFor this achievement you must lay an egg (!) in the Golakka Hot Springs of Un'goro Crater while polymorphed into a Noblegarden Bunny! There are two different ways to become a Noblegarden Bunny. The easy way is to have another player travel with you and use a Blossoming Branch to change you into a rabbit. Simply stand around long enough and eventually your rabbit will lay an egg - voila, achievement done. The more complicated way is to open Brightly Colored Eggs until you are randomly transformed into a Noblegarden Bunny. Then, good luck getting to Un'goro. The most logical way to get there (assuming a level 80 character who isn't an engineer):1. Get transformed into a rabbit.

3. If you hearthed to Dalaran, take the portal to Caverns of Time located inside the Violet Citadel.

4. Run across Tanaris to Un'goro, praying not to get in combat because damage will break the diguise. Oh, and you can't mount or taxi, either, so the run will take you close to 15 minutes. Swimming won't remove your rabbit costume.

5. Sit anywhere at the Golakka Hot Springs for a few seconds, until you lay an egg.

Obviously, the method stated first is much, much easier and way more practical!

Shake Your Bunny-MakerFor this achievement you must use Spring Flowers to place bunny ears on a female of each race that is level 18 or higher. Spring Flowers can be purchased from a Noblegarden vendor for 50 Noblegarden Chocolate or may be randomly looted from a Brightly Colored Egg. While finding females of every race may not be very difficult, the item has a 5 minute cooldown. So, girls, prepare to be stalked by weirdos waving flowers in your general direction while they wait for the cooldown to come up.

Spring Fling or Spring FlingThis achievement requires that you have first obtained the Spring Rabbit's Foot, either by looting it randomly from a Brightly Colored Egg or purchasing it from a Noblegarden vendor for 100 Noblegarden Chocolate. Once you have done that, head out to each of the four starting areas for your faction and find another player with a Spring Rabbit. After a few moments of the rabbits noticing each other, the magic will happen! No spoilers, but ha ha, "like rabbits" and all that - let's keep things PG-13 and pretend we're all mature enough to simply have a chuckle at Blizzard's little joke. Anyway, do this at all four starting areas and you're done!

Comments

Comment by Troxase

on 2009-05-01T02:41:01-05:00

im only level 49 and this was the easy exept for finding a female dwarf and orc.

Comment by luubox

on 2009-05-01T04:05:30-05:00

Female dwarfs and orc females were especialy a $%^&* to find on my realm during this event, even as a alliance i had to have my guildmates help scout for the dwarfes since thye were nowhere to find lolz

Comment by sirius

on 2009-05-01T06:44:54-05:00

PS: Find a friend with choppa to take you to the high level destinations, it's really pain that corpse running. :)

The mammoth works as well :)

Friend said the vendors can no longer be kicked from the mammoth. Don't know if it's true. :)

PS: Meta-achievement completed. Now I'm level 6 with title "the Noble". Thanks both Blizz and Wowhead for help ^^

Comment by nohonor57

on 2009-05-01T12:35:41-05:00

female undead...easy! trying to tell the difference between a male and female tauren,torture

Comment by adashiel

on 2009-05-01T13:49:55-05:00

I found an egg in Terokkar Forest! How was I able to find it, if they only spawn in starting zones?

I bought a bunch of Noblegarden Eggs and have been putting them all over the place. The screenshot in the Noblegarden Egg entry is one I dropped in the Dalaran sewers while water walking. Unfortunately, the eggs (the item not the object) only last three days and have an hourlong cooldown.

Friend said the vendors can no longer be kicked from the mammoth. Don't know if it's true. :)

Nope, it's not true. It has a different interface, now, so I suppose he could have addon conflicts. He should have a mammoth diagram on the right side of the screen while mounted. You can right-click the two passengers to boot them.

Comment by Jng357

on 2009-05-02T14:37:49-05:00

Noblegarden coming to an end. :(Was a fun event, I'm glad I got the title within the 1st day.. gathering around 200 eggs/chocolates and actually getting the Spring Rabbit in the egg. xD